Celebrating 70 years of public service
Merryn Williams reviews an anthology of poems about the NHS which express both gratitude and anxiety
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London Grip Poetry Review – Stuart Henson
Merryn Williams discovers some fine new poems in Stuart Henson’s latest collection
The Topiary of Passchendaele
Merryn Williams gives a concise appreciation of a prizewinning chapbook by Christopher North which contains several prizewinning poems.
In Transit : Poems of Travel
Merryn Williams loves anthologies and finds this collection of travel poems to be a good and inspiring example
A Third Colour
Merryn Williams shares a few thoughts about Alan Dunnett’s rather challenging poetry collection which seeks, among other things, to capture “the psychological fallout of anxiety in modern capitalist culture”
London Grip Poetry Review – Croft
Merryn Williams is doubly impressed – both by Andy Croft’s finely crafted poetry and by its subject, the unfairly neglected writer and activist, Randall Swingler
London Grip Poetry Reviews – Wynn Owen & Parker
Merryn Williams considers books by two poets with vivid imaginations which they use in different ways: Andrew Wynn Owen veers towards mythology while Rennie Parker finds anarchy closer to everyday life.
London Grip Poetry Review – Burns
Merryn Williams praises a new – but, sadly, posthumous – collection from Elizabeth Burns
London Grip Poetry Review – Considine
Merryn Williams is impressed by Chris Considine’s poetry of self-sufficiency on a small island
London Grip Poetry Review – Bidgood
Merryn Williams admires the seemingly-inexhaustible poetic skill on show in a double collection from Ruth Bidgood
London Grip Poetry Review – Owen
A short review by Merryn Williams enters fully into the spirit of Jan Owen’s Baudelaire-based jeu d’esprit
London Grip Poetry Review – Anne Stewart
Merryn Williams discovers that Anne Stewart’s poems about bereavement succeed on several levels